It's a knitting blog silly. With occaisional interruptions for general crap.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

I can sew! (50th post woohoo!)

Joel's grandma gave me her old sewing machine.

It's not very fancy, it can't do zig-zag stitch or button-holes or any of the cool stuff that even an inexpensive modern machine can do. *but* it is exceptionally cool looking (that counts right?) it was so sweet of Joel's grandma to give it to me, and it was *free* which is my favorite price. I moved it into the craft room last night. Hopefully when I go home today (I'm at mom's right now) I'll get some sewing done.

Like most things in Joel's family the machine has been exceptionally well cared for and it runs like a dream.

I'm just happy that all my belly-aching paid off this time. The funny thing is that I don't think I even mentioned to Joel how much I wanted one. I may have said something in passing but as he doesn't really understand my drive to craft and create, I usually don't tell him stuff like that.

Maybe I was just sending "get me a sewing machine" vibes into the universe... it's The Secret! It works! hehe

In honor of this being my 50th post I decided that what I really needed was a kitten heel red patent leather shoe. How else do you celebrate 50 posts I ask you? So I went to target.com and purchased this:psst... click on the picture to get yourself a pairOkay so I didn't really buy them because of 50 posts... but it sounded good right? I bought them because they remind me of my grandma (grandma loves red shoes) and I thought they'd look nice with my navy dress... even if red shoes are played out.

I will do something in honor of the 50th post though... I'll have a CONTEST.

It's easy, leave me a comment (say something nice... or maybe neutral) and I'll use one of them thar random number generators thingies to pick a name. I'll send you some yarn. Because I love you. Good yarn too.

I guess we'll say leave a comment by 5:00 pm Pacific time on Tuesday. Thanks.

13 comments:

I will start this off! That is a great sewing machine. Even if you ever become the super most pro ever sewing lady, don't give it up. Those old machines are tanks and will hold up forever. My super computerized (dumb expensive) machine is almost a ready for retirement at 10 years, see what I mean?

Thanks for the great compliment on my Urban Jungle socks over on my blog.

Congrats on your 50th post. And the sewing machine. That is so cool! I still want to slap my aunts for hauling my grandma's treadle sewing machine to the dump because it was old fashioned and buying her a Singer to replace it. >:(

TAG! You have just been tagged. Head over to my blog at http://www.midgeling.com/blog/ to see the rules. Heehee.

oh my goodness...that robin egg blue machine rocks! I have a super duper janome 10000 but still prefer to use my old Necchi I inherited from mil. Seems like the older machines are work horses and do fabulouso straight stiching.